Derek, 73, and Joyce Scranage, 71, of Avon Walk, Featherstone, marked their golden wedding anniversary surrounded by friends and family at the Green Lane WMC on Friday night.


Joyce said: "Everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves. It was an absolutely fantastic night."
The couple married at the town's St Thomas' Church a few months after getting together.


Joyce said: "We had known each other for years – I went to school with his brother. One summer I worked in a hotel in Blackpool and he came down with his friends and we got together when I came back.


"That was in the September and we married the following February, because he didn't want me to go back to Blackpool."
Derek worked for many years as a railway signal man in Featherstone before retiring from a job at Ferrybridge Power Station.
Joyce said she did all sorts of jobs but retired from working with adults with learning difficulties at Lyndale residential home in Featherstone.


She said: "It was the most rewarding job I had ever done, and I still go away on holiday with them. I love it."
Joyce is also a member for Featherstone and District Lions and Derek is a member of Purston Bowling Club.
They have two children and two grandchildren.